An American general with highly confidential defence information has been kidnapped by terrorists and is being held in a cliff-top fortress in the Mediterranean.

Claude Brasseur
as Roger Lacier

Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
as Capitaine de Saintes

Jean-Hugues Anglade
as Richard Avakian

Niels Arestrup
as Mike

Gabriel Briand
as Spartacus

Jean-Roger Milo
as Bastien Schneider

Patrick Edlinger
as Patrick

Gérard Darmon
as La Cavale

Robert Arden
as Général Lee W. Simon

Daniel Duval
as Le Gitan